Five Thing Friday

1. Sooooo, we closed on the condo on Wednesday.  Besides being exhausted from endless trips to Home Depot, there was no excessive feeling.  My coworker said she keeps waiting for it to hit me, but I’ve known it was happening for 2 months, so….yeah, whatever.
2. My hip really hurt after my run on Tuesday, so I haven’t run since.  It’s painful right at my joint on the front of my thigh.  Survey says….hip flexor tendinitis!  Obviously, because my tendons hate me and inflame at every chance they get.  I’ve been stretching and icing and taking Advil and it feels fine.  My next 1/2 marathon training “starts” the week of vacation. Since the only training I’ll be doing that week is for a case race, I’ll get plenty of rest.
3. On our first Home Depot shopping trip we disagreed on everything.  FH was super excited to get a heated towel rack, but they were too “expensive” so we got regular towel racks.  Yet, these heated towel racks have been on our shopping list for months.  Literally.  And everything is expensive.  We’re not going bankrupt by buying a heated towel rack.  UGH.  But I could not win this one.  Apparently, we’re not alone in fighting at HD: 
4. I did successfully buy paint!  Having lived in white and eggshell for the past 10 years, I can’t wait to paint.  It’s a little excessive, since the unit is freshly painted already.  But, I decided to just paint one bedroom and one accent wall in the living room.  The stripes will be this Rich Navy and the bedroom is a slightly lighter blue (still pretty dark).  It took me about 2 hours to tape off half of these stripes.  Why did I think this was a good idea?
5. Since I wasn’t supposed to use my credit card pre-closing, I had a few purchases saved up in my head and went nuts after Wednesday.  I finally bought new running sneakers!  IDK why I said finally.  I have 3 pairs that all have less than 100 miles on them.  Anyyywayyy, these Saucony Omnis are a stability shoe weighing 9.3 oz (about the same as my Asics, while my Mizunos weight 7.9 oz).  They have more stability than my Mizuno’s, way more than my Asics, and slightly less than my Brooks, which should hit the sweet spot (though my Mizuno’s held up for the half, which was impressive and surprising).  The Brooks weight 11.9 oz. and the bottom is so stiff that it hurts my foot.  My hope is that these provide enough support to avoid more hip problems, but in a lighter, more comfortable shoe than Brooks Addiction.

Five Thing Friday

1. 3 members of my fiancé’s family friended me on FB after the engagement.  I don’t post many (if any) political or religious things on there.  I’m somewhat of a Facebook Purist.  It’s all about sharing pictures and life events for me.  But those pictures include ones of me and my friends giving each other lap dances at house parties (#whitegirlwasted), and life events are sprinkled with the vocabulary of a truck driver (as you all know).  I was scrolling through and really wondering what the hell this very Catholic family is thinking of me at this point…  I’m not going to change, but it did make me wonder if I should take pains to edit myself a little bit.
   1. Yes, I know the alt code for é by heart.  It’s 130.
      

      Family probably doesn’t need to see this. At least I shaved my armpits! AND I’m not even drinking in this picture!

2. Speaking of the engagement, I desperately need to get my ring sized.  Currently there’s a fat piece of mole skin (the sticky padded stuff that keeps your shoes from rubbing your feet the wrong way, not the notebook), in the back of the ring to keep it from spinning around and falling off.  He bough it online (shout out to the Natural Sapphire Company), so I need to find a jeweler to do it.  I found one with awesome reviews near my apartment, but their hours suck.  Combine that with the fact that I still haven’t shown most of my friends and sizing it could take up to a week, I don’t want to drop it off just yet.  So I must live with the mole skin for now.  ARG.
3. We’ve been starting to look at buying a condo for about a month now.  It’s exhausting.  First we got pre-approved and there was nothing on the market, and I mean NOTHING.  Well, nothing in our price range in our area, I guess.  And then this week, there’s 6 open houses all at the same time all in our price range and almost in our area.  I’ll write more about this process as we go, but right now I can say that the market in and around Boston blows.  It’s so expensive (think $500+ per square foot!) and there are so few properties that they’re going for 10-20% OVER ASKING.
4. It is also turning me into someone on House Hunters.
5. And now I’ll just leave you with my final thoughts on the above topics:

HAPPY FRIDAY!  WELCOME TO THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!  AHHHHHH